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like harry potter characters. corporation people are very different. last year did you notice obama had passed the emergency bill with armor for our boys in iraq and afghanistan? who is against bar at -- body armor for our soldiers? there is no member of congress who would vote against body armor for the soldiers in four nuclear plants. in the foot notes wrapped in the body armor come $8 billion of loan guarantees for, of four reactors down payment of the $56 billion program stuck in the body armor. cool. i was quite impressed. i smelled houston. i knew. sure enough there is a shift shape corporation back and forth. that is a lot of construction work. of four plants will be built of the company which is the new name of stoner webster nuclear. they are already busy and have been given a contract to rebuild fish -- fukushima i kid you not. of the radioactive brick from texas. i don't know who sent it because i burned to the avello before i could read the return address. all i know there is a document that says said nick did in, but as trade secrets or co
like harry potter characters. corporation people are very different. last year did you notice obama had passed the emergency bill with armor for our boys in iraq and afghanistan? who is against bar at -- body armor for our soldiers? there is no member of congress who would vote against body armor for the soldiers in four nuclear plants. in the foot notes wrapped in the body armor come $8 billion of loan guarantees for, of four reactors down payment of the $56 billion program stuck in the body...
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potter and the deathly hallows part one and two with a bathroom break in between all of the savings of the painstaking negotiated plan would have been borrowed back. 7 billion or 1 billion. who cares who's right. that is the choice between dead or deader. the white house really enforceable cut of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are rather more relevant. within a decade, the united states would be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on its military. that is to save more on the debt service than on the armed services and according to the cbo's long-term budget outlook by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 to 20% of its revenue and defense spending will be down between 14 to 16. so america just to get this in perspective, america is responsible for 33% of the world's military expenditures. within a decade america would be spending more on debt interest and this is not paying of the principal this is like when you get your mastercard at the end of the month you can't pay off any of the debt all you can do is stay current with
potter and the deathly hallows part one and two with a bathroom break in between all of the savings of the painstaking negotiated plan would have been borrowed back. 7 billion or 1 billion. who cares who's right. that is the choice between dead or deader. the white house really enforceable cut of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are rather more relevant. within a decade, the united states would be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on its...
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potter and the deathly hallows parts one and two with a bathroom break in between, all the savings of these painstakingly negotiated plan will have been borrowed back. 7 billion or 1 billion? who cares who is right? that's a choice between dead or dead or. among shuffling back and forth between the cattle and the white horse, and the white house were real enforceable cut of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are rather more relevant. within a decade the united states will be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on its military. that's to say more on debt service than on the armed services. according to the cbo's long-term budget outlook, by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 and 20% of its revenues in debt interest, and defense spending will be down between 14 and 16%. so america, just to get this in perspective, america is responsible for about 43% of the world military expenditures. within a decade america will be spending more on debt interest. and this is not paying off the principal. this is only, your massacre at the end
potter and the deathly hallows parts one and two with a bathroom break in between, all the savings of these painstakingly negotiated plan will have been borrowed back. 7 billion or 1 billion? who cares who is right? that's a choice between dead or dead or. among shuffling back and forth between the cattle and the white horse, and the white house were real enforceable cut of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are rather more relevant. within a decade the united states will be...
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it's like the hunger games or harry potter which i haven't been able to figure out that except that, i guess readers are hooked, and it doesn't really matter. maybe also the line between what young adult is and what is allegedly adult is not as pronounced as it used to be. >> host: are you publishing any of those books? >> guest: we're not. so i can't speak with a lot of authority. i do know as far as twilight, there's a famous story she tell, about being on an airplane reading and knowing when she gets off that plane, she has to buy that book. i think she responded to twilight just the way any reader would. >> host: what about the use of social media, particularly when it comes to pr and marketing of a book? >> guest: well, um, i'm 57 years old, and i don't tweet. and so i rely on the young people in my office to do it. i think that, you know, it's one of the things i'm trying to educate myself and my staff about. i think what the internet has offered us is a way to narrow cast that we've never been able to do and a way to in a cost effective manner potentially reach the audience th
it's like the hunger games or harry potter which i haven't been able to figure out that except that, i guess readers are hooked, and it doesn't really matter. maybe also the line between what young adult is and what is allegedly adult is not as pronounced as it used to be. >> host: are you publishing any of those books? >> guest: we're not. so i can't speak with a lot of authority. i do know as far as twilight, there's a famous story she tell, about being on an airplane reading and...
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i loved -- not the list but harry potter, and things i have -- student and fahrenheit 451, and to kill a mocking -- -- mockingbird. >> do yaw have any books you haven't read yet you might be interested in reading? >> some of the classics i've always meant to read and haven't. i want to go back and take a look at them. invisible man. i don't think i ever tackled that one. >> and we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, dc. this is day one of two days of coverage. the book festival has now expanded to two days and book tv will be live both days. of you want to see our schedule go to booktv.org and we're pleased to be joined with rajiv chandrasekaran, an associate editor at the was post, and most recently the author of this book, "little america" about the war in afghanistan. but where did the term little america come from? >> it came from a remarkable project in the 1950s, led by a team of american engineers, to develop parts of southern afghanistan to dig irrigation candles, build dams, in the very same terrain that the current troop surge unfolded in. back the
i loved -- not the list but harry potter, and things i have -- student and fahrenheit 451, and to kill a mocking -- -- mockingbird. >> do yaw have any books you haven't read yet you might be interested in reading? >> some of the classics i've always meant to read and haven't. i want to go back and take a look at them. invisible man. i don't think i ever tackled that one. >> and we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, dc. this is day one of two days...
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potter or luke skywalker, these are stories we keep recycling and that's been a tremendous source of fascination to me. and i do see that sense of tedium going back to your first point, when i'm in school, and one of the things i've really enjoyed in the past few years is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year and a half i have been visiting some of the great schools around the country via skype. it's wonderful. i go into rural alabama or north dakota or pennsylvania, inner city brooklyn via the internet, and i'm able to talk to kids about what is on their minds, and what i find -- and the saddest thing i see is this tremendous excitement and enthusiasm, curiosity, for history, from so many of these kids, and really, really dedicated teachers trying to keep that curiosity alive, but we get so bogged down in the testing and the standardized testing, that we sometimes do tamp down or even kill that sense of curiosity. >> host: first call for kenneth davis from mill hall, pennsylvania, lawrence, you're on the air. go made. >> host: lawrence, you with us? and we're
potter or luke skywalker, these are stories we keep recycling and that's been a tremendous source of fascination to me. and i do see that sense of tedium going back to your first point, when i'm in school, and one of the things i've really enjoyed in the past few years is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year and a half i have been visiting some of the great schools around the country via skype. it's wonderful. i go into rural alabama or north dakota or pennsylvania,...
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exclusive retailer for "harry potter" e-books and the way it is set up is customers can go to potter board or your favorite retailer amazon.com or cm.com customers can get the e-book and essentially by there and read on whatever device they choose so essentially they are dear afri. >> host: so this is becoming a trend? >> guest: it appears to be. >> host: industrywide? >> guest: that is hard to say. i think everybody is waiting on everybody else to see the works at a piracy is unaffected i free moves but it may not be a blanket thing like i can't say yet that mcmillan will suddenly make all of their books drm free but because science fiction is oriented and those fans are passionate and they have been reading digital books early that is a very good imprint. but will they see it or say non-fiction or literary fiction? that is difficult to say. >> host: the background of the department of justice, apple and the current -- >> guest: oh my. this has been in the works for a few months. the department of justice has been making noises that they might be looking into it and they were going
exclusive retailer for "harry potter" e-books and the way it is set up is customers can go to potter board or your favorite retailer amazon.com or cm.com customers can get the e-book and essentially by there and read on whatever device they choose so essentially they are dear afri. >> host: so this is becoming a trend? >> guest: it appears to be. >> host: industrywide? >> guest: that is hard to say. i think everybody is waiting on everybody else to see the...
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no one has the ability not even harry potter. [laughter] to simply wave a magic wand and say that we are going to have gas prices at $2 at $2 and 50 cents or $3, it doesn't happen that way. that really is the point that i hope that most americans understand. there is no silver bullet or magic wand. if we are going to find our way to addressing to addressing one of the most important questions of the security of the united states -- you need to have an energy framework and energy policy in place, like the one that president obama and his team have put into place. that is and all of the above strategy that understands oil and gas is part of our energy future. renewables like solar, wind, and geothermal are opening up a new chapter that has been closed for a long time on nuclear. biorefineries, we now have the first of those commercial biorefineries and we are going to see advanced biofuels. it is and all of the above energy strategy. that is what we need to do to stay on the course to get to a place where the american people are no
no one has the ability not even harry potter. [laughter] to simply wave a magic wand and say that we are going to have gas prices at $2 at $2 and 50 cents or $3, it doesn't happen that way. that really is the point that i hope that most americans understand. there is no silver bullet or magic wand. if we are going to find our way to addressing to addressing one of the most important questions of the security of the united states -- you need to have an energy framework and energy policy in...
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so they'll be taken out, and they'll go and see harry potter, whatever it is, but they'll miss the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes because to get them into the theater with the bodyguards requires that kind of thing. and it is absolutely despicable, it is absolutely despicable for hollywood not to show solidarity with these people. there's so much fake courage in the world, and in my own profession writers congratulate themselves on showing courage and all the rest of it. the people who, the solidarity that was shown with salman rushdie mostly by his north london dinner party, fellow dinner party novelists back in the late '80s would not be shown now. as the south park incident illustrated, everyone just goes very quiet about it these days. and i think, i think rushdie himself who had to cancel an appearance at a literary festival in india just a couple of days ago would be the first to s that even the tepid support he received 25, almost 25 years ago he would not get now. >> host: next call for mark steyn, about 30 minutes left with our guest, comes from lyle in marion, ohio.
so they'll be taken out, and they'll go and see harry potter, whatever it is, but they'll miss the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes because to get them into the theater with the bodyguards requires that kind of thing. and it is absolutely despicable, it is absolutely despicable for hollywood not to show solidarity with these people. there's so much fake courage in the world, and in my own profession writers congratulate themselves on showing courage and all the rest of it. the people...
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otherwise fantasyland has expanded, harry potter world expanding. we have legoland. my job is to fight when the state. miami is so great. so each is doing well. my home town of naples is really nice to her housing market is comeback on the housing year-over-year for zip temper is up 7%. all the sordid economic indicators are headed in the right direction. tourism, home prices, construction, all these things happening. i think four years ago we then had outmigration for the first time since 1946 comes something like that. it's doubly misstated the number people to move. mr. hundred 35,000 people to move into the state. most importantly in the first 22 minutes i've been in office, businesses and our state have generated 174,000 were service sector jobs. not for government jobs, more private-sector jobs. we've had positive annual job growth every month since i became governor. in fact a few minutes ago we announced another 12,100 private-sector jobs generated in the month about over by our businesses. so now we are at an unemployment of 8.5%, the lowest since december 2
otherwise fantasyland has expanded, harry potter world expanding. we have legoland. my job is to fight when the state. miami is so great. so each is doing well. my home town of naples is really nice to her housing market is comeback on the housing year-over-year for zip temper is up 7%. all the sordid economic indicators are headed in the right direction. tourism, home prices, construction, all these things happening. i think four years ago we then had outmigration for the first time since 1946...
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[laughter] by the way, fantasy land expanded, harry potter world's expanding. [laughter] we have lego land. my job is to sell the darn state. miami is still great, south beach is doing well. my hometown of naples is really nice, but our housing market has come back. housing prices year over year for september, september's up over 7%. home sales were up. all of this sort of economic indicators you think about are headed in the right direction. tourism, home prices, construction, all of these things are happening. more people move to florida, four years ago, we had out migration, for the first time, since, i think, 1946, something like that. it's doubling this year, the number of people who will move. about 135,000 people are moving to the state this year. most importantly, and in the first 22 months i've been in office, businesses in the state generated 174,000 more private sector jobs. in the more government job -- not more government jobs, but private sector jobs. positive annual job growth every month since i've become governor. a few minutes ago, we announce
[laughter] by the way, fantasy land expanded, harry potter world's expanding. [laughter] we have lego land. my job is to sell the darn state. miami is still great, south beach is doing well. my hometown of naples is really nice, but our housing market has come back. housing prices year over year for september, september's up over 7%. home sales were up. all of this sort of economic indicators you think about are headed in the right direction. tourism, home prices, construction, all of these...
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and you can call that hercules or you can call with moses or you can call it superman or harry potter or lukes cal locker these are -- this is a story, and iconic titled, if you will, that we keep recycling. that has been a tremendous source of fascination to me. i do see that sense of tedium going back to your first point when i am in schools. one of the things that i have really enjoyed in the past few years is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year-and-a-half, visiting some of the great schools around the country the escape. it's wonderful. i go into rural alabama or north dakota were pennsylvania. inner-city brooklyn. i am able to talk to kids about what is on their minds. what i find and the saddest thing i see is the tremendous excitement, enthusiasm, curiously forestry from so many of these kids trying to keep alive, we get so far down in the testing and the standardized testing that we some times even kill that sense of curiosity. >> guest: first call comes from mel hall, pennsylvania. lawrence, you're on the air. please go ahead. lawrence are you with u
and you can call that hercules or you can call with moses or you can call it superman or harry potter or lukes cal locker these are -- this is a story, and iconic titled, if you will, that we keep recycling. that has been a tremendous source of fascination to me. i do see that sense of tedium going back to your first point when i am in schools. one of the things that i have really enjoyed in the past few years is making many more school visits, particularly in the last year-and-a-half, visiting...
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we were ahead of harry potter. [laughter] this year, however, we're doing things a little bit differently as we fits a finish -- befits a 21st century debate. in just a few minutes, anyone -- no matter where they are in the world -- will be able to view the pages online. it's the largest single series of records that the national archiveses has released online, 3.9 million pages, and getting it ready for today was the responsibility of a dedicated staff at the national archives and the census bureau. more than 70 national archive staff members have worked to make the 1940 census available to the public, and i'd like to express special thanks to rebecca warlow, jeff reed and the staff or our digitization services unit who created the 3.9 million digital images, it's actually 3.85. connie potter and diane peat row who have been preparing the public and our reference staff of the 1940s census with articles, lectures and blogs. staff and our open government division and in information services who have been overseeing
we were ahead of harry potter. [laughter] this year, however, we're doing things a little bit differently as we fits a finish -- befits a 21st century debate. in just a few minutes, anyone -- no matter where they are in the world -- will be able to view the pages online. it's the largest single series of records that the national archiveses has released online, 3.9 million pages, and getting it ready for today was the responsibility of a dedicated staff at the national archives and the census...
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you know, harry potter, terrific series. when the kids come and terrific illustrations. books about sports, fine. if you have boys, let them read anything. , looks, great, graphic novels, almanacs, cut books, share, why not. as long as they are reading because to get better at it. i'll go to schools and say who play soccer? who love soccer? the outcome of the. you better know? would play a lot. same with reading. he read more, get better at it. it gets easier. you read better books. you have something that you love. so i though the will to get that in your hands that notion we read in our house. it's really cool that your kids see you reading. that's nice, but the most important thing that got to have books in their bedroom. i got to read the darn things. when jack was a, sue and i that's number -- the holidays are another good time, the three, four weeks they have. but they said you can read everyday. he said do i have to? assembly, unless you want to sleep in the garage. but we are going to find cool books for you. so we went out with us and percy jackson series, read:
you know, harry potter, terrific series. when the kids come and terrific illustrations. books about sports, fine. if you have boys, let them read anything. , looks, great, graphic novels, almanacs, cut books, share, why not. as long as they are reading because to get better at it. i'll go to schools and say who play soccer? who love soccer? the outcome of the. you better know? would play a lot. same with reading. he read more, get better at it. it gets easier. you read better books. you have...